The Nintendo 3DS Belongs in a Museum! Specifically the Louvre!

I don’t know about you, but I certainly don’t associate the word ‘museum’ with fun. In fact, just typing the word has sent my brain into hyper-excuse-generation mode:

Yard work. Writing project. Sick. Bad ankle. Oil paint allergy.

These would all be fine museum excuses and I’ve gone ahead and saved that sentence in a sticky for future use.

But if I lived in Paris, I wouldn't need my litany of excuses, as the Louvre, in an exceedingly cool move, has ordered 5,000 Nintendo 3DS to replace their traditional audio guides.

"We are the first museum in the world to do this," Agnes Alfandari, the museum's head of multimedia told French news service AFP.

From the AFP story:

Visitors will be able to locate themselves within the Louvre, choose themed itineraries including special ones for children, and listen to hundreds of recorded commentaries, in seven languages, about the works on display.

It seems Nintendo has developed the content for the 3DS’, with the Louvre serving as editorial control.

The Louvre isn’t stopping there, either, as iPad an smartphone apps are also on their way.

A call seeking confirmation of Mary Magdalene’s presence beneath the Louvre’s inverted pyramid was not returned.